Example sentences of "[verb] him to his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll ground him , or send him to his room . |
| 2 | Bob Monkhouse , best known as a comedy writer and actor for television and radio , and playing his first straight acting role in the West End , as Buddy 's elder brother , Alan , spotted Crawford 's comedy potential and invited him to his home , where they spent an evening reading the play . |
| 3 | She helped him to his sofa bed in the living room , and he still did not wake up . |
| 4 | The Padre , who was passing , helped him to his bedroom and offered to call one of the doctors . |
| 5 | He was given a lift home where son Paul and wife Grace helped him to his bedroom . |
| 6 | Love and pride shone from her enormous black eyes as , ever tender , she lifted her grandson and held him against her grubby sweater for a long moment before returning him to his crib . |
| 7 | Even if removing Mark is justifiable , research suggests returning him to his mother within six weeks would offer the best prospect for successful rehabilitation . |
| 8 | Last week the campus at Cambridge , Massachusetts , was in uproar as relatives launched a medical malpractice and wrongful death legal action , claiming that his therapist for four years , Dr Margaret Bean-Bayog , 20 years his senior , drove him to his death after a sado-masochistic seduction . |
| 9 | She gulped back the tears and then blurted unsteadily , ‘ Luke drove him to his death , made Mark 's life a misery . |
| 10 | She resisted the temptation to do as Paul suggested and instead made him pot after pot of black coffee and then drove him to his shop in Bridgetown . |
| 11 | When the Queen of the Wilis commands Giselle to rise and dance him to his death , so strong is. her love that she helps him to dance until cockcrow when he will survive . |
| 12 | Somebody had pushed him to his death from a window in Oxford in 1968 and , twenty years later , Harry was pursuing the consequences . |
| 13 | When he dragged out the table and the lamplight spilled onto the splodges of cadmium yellow and scarlet lake , he thought of the girl who had shown him to his dressing-room on the morning of his arrival . |
| 14 | In the end , Shane has to ride out again , despite the cries of the boy who prefers him to his father , not qualified to live in the community because of his purity and violence . |
| 15 | She longed to get near him , and when he was quite drunk Simone would gently steer him to his room and help him get to bed . |
| 16 | He is too full of hate even to be afraid , he would have accused him to his face . ’ |
| 17 | Should have told him to his face . |
| 18 | He came forward and embraced Li Yuan , holding him to his breast , one hand smoothing the back of his neck . |
| 19 | He drank it , she dandled him on her knee ; presently his eyes closed and he slept again , so that Mary could return him to his cradle . |
| 20 | One more story about O : he told me ( it was as if he was trying to explain the oddity of his lovemaking to me , as if he was trying to account for or apologise for the way he 'd treated me , or perhaps to reassure me concerning the effect he 'd had on me , I do n't know ) , in the morning he told me that there was one man , this had been just a couple of years previously , there was one man who had summoned him to his bedside to be counted amongst a farewell gathering of lovers , dear friends and great passions . |
| 21 | You followed him to his home ? ’ |
| 22 | With great nervousness and alarm she followed him to his room . |
| 23 | Kabir came to the market to sell from his loom when the woman grasped his hand , blaming him for being faithless , and followed him to his house , saying she would not be forsaken . |
| 24 | She was to call him Tom from now on , he had said … she had walked him to his car after he had dropped in to see Faye over lunch . |
| 25 | In it , a wizard enchants two sisters , one after the other , to accompany him to his house in the depth of the forest . |
| 26 | His ‘ music ’ tied him to his sense perceptions and to his normal emotional experience . |
| 27 | The dealer who had introduced him to his broker became understandably embittered . |
| 28 | The Americans , suspecting Mossadegh of Communist sympathies , organized support for the Shah through the agents of the CIA ( Central Intelligence Agency ) in Iran , and restored him to his throne . |
| 29 | His father Zafar left their home in Drakes way , Swindon for Karachi with him shortly before a county Court hearing which restored him to his mother 's custody . |
| 30 | He then returned to marry Eric 's widow , but was again expelled by his stepson , the new Swedish king Olaf , who later , for his mother 's sake , restored him to his kingdom . |